URGENT HELP NEEDED - BOOT PROBLEMS

Hi all,


I'll try and keep this short and sweet.

I have 2 hard drives, 1 is almost 'broke' (120gb) the other works fine
(320gb). I installed Vista on the 320gb hard drive, but unless the 120gb hard
drive is connected it wont load vista up. I have looked on the 120gb hard
drive and there appears to be a bootsect.bak file of 8kb which after reading
around on the net, seems to be something to do with the boot options. I have
been told that if i moved this file over to my 320gb hard drive it wont be
able to load windows again. I have no other ideas why i cannot boot Vista
without the 120gb hard drive connected


Please - anyone who can help, leave a message.

You do not specify so this a guess - that at the 120 was the primay drive
(C) and you installed Vista while the drive was active. In that case Vista
installs a "Boot" folder on the 120. You may getting an error such "ntldr
missing".

Try Vista DVD repair option or Google for a Microsoft KB on the problem.


"DanielPeplow" <> wrote in message
news:022656B2-1982-41C7-B970-...
> Hi all,
>
>
> I'll try and keep this short and sweet.
>
> I have 2 hard drives, 1 is almost 'broke' (120gb) the other works fine
> (320gb). I installed Vista on the 320gb hard drive, but unless the 120gb
> hard
> drive is connected it wont load vista up. I have looked on the 120gb hard
> drive and there appears to be a bootsect.bak file of 8kb which after
> reading
> around on the net, seems to be something to do with the boot options. I
> have
> been told that if i moved this file over to my 320gb hard drive it wont be
> able to load windows again. I have no other ideas why i cannot boot Vista
> without the 120gb hard drive connected
>
>
> Please - anyone who can help, leave a message.
>

Remove the 120 GB drive. Set the 320 GB drive as the boot drive. Boot from
the Vista DVD and perform a startup repair. You may have to do the startup
repair twice.


http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/win...startup+repair
--
Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca


"DanielPeplow" <> wrote in message
news:022656B2-1982-41C7-B970-...
> Hi all,
>
>
> I'll try and keep this short and sweet.
>
> I have 2 hard drives, 1 is almost 'broke' (120gb) the other works fine
> (320gb). I installed Vista on the 320gb hard drive, but unless the 120gb
> hard
> drive is connected it wont load vista up. I have looked on the 120gb hard
> drive and there appears to be a bootsect.bak file of 8kb which after
> reading
> around on the net, seems to be something to do with the boot options. I
> have
> been told that if i moved this file over to my 320gb hard drive it wont be
> able to load windows again. I have no other ideas why i cannot boot Vista
> without the 120gb hard drive connected
>
>
> Please - anyone who can help, leave a message.
>

I just had this problem yesterday. My solution was to BootEdit Pro which
is a GUI interface the Bootloader configuration, you can use it to copy
the boot information to another drive and make that drive boottable.

http://www.vistabootpro.org/


--
Nik Simpson